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> what makes it different? It's GNU, others aren't. There will be other well reasoned arguments in favour of Shepherd but it essentially boils down to the sam
by laumars 8y ago
> what makes it different?
It's GNU, others aren't.
There will be other well reasoned arguments in favour of Shepherd but it essentially boils down to the same reason Hurd (the kernel) is a thing when GNU/Linux is already widespread.
That all said, I don't see the harm in competing solutions. Better to have a choice rather than lock ins.
- aries1980 8y agoSystemd is licenced under LGPL, why would it lock you in?
- laumars 8y agoSorry, that was a poor choice of words on my part. What I really meant was "better to have more options rather than fewer".
- yarrel 8y agoIt's locking people in by eating the OS and making it difficult to move away from its tightly coupled and increasingly tightly integrated components (that, we must never forget, are not a single binary).
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoIt only supports Linux, for one. Shepherd supports HURD and probably other systems.